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[Rule #1]Drywall/Plaster from Gypsum

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As we all know, gypsum does nothing aside from, well, waste space and do nothing. It's useless, but in the real world, it's actually quite useful. It can be ground up and made into plaster of paris, or into drywall, and is also used in cement mixing. 

 

Perhaps one could grind gypsum in a quern and mix the resulting powder with, say, flux (I'm not actually sure how the making of plaster is done, I'm just guessing) and then that could be mixed with water to form plaster. The plaster could then be made into some kind of special wall material, or something similar, or maybe it could be used as a better material for making molds; say, ceramic molds that only break half as often as the current clay ones do. Plaster could also have another use; balancing out the issue with kaolinite/graphite. 

 

It seems like whenever I find kaolinite, I will never, ever, find graphite. I search for a few hours but always end up having to spawn it in because it's so hard to find. I found graphite on a save once, but then never found any kaolinite. The plaster could replace one or the other in the fireclay recipe - if you find kaolinite but not graphite, you could just use kaolinite and plaster, or graphite and plaster. The plaster would have to be mixed with sand first, though, as a 50/50 mixture of plaster and sand forms a very good refractory material; definitely fit for something such as a blast furnace.

 

Those are just my thoughts on how gypsum could be used. Thanks for reading. 

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